Speaker 1: As I've been telling you all week, Marjorie Taylor GREENE, Republican congresswoman,
now wants to be taken seriously. And unfortunately, it's looking increasingly
like corporate media is going to help her. There's a really good article in Salon by Amanda marcotte,
which makes a lot of the points that we've been making on the show this week about Marjorie
Taylor. GREENE And Amanda writes, quote. Marjorie Taylor GREENE wants to be a mainstream Republican
now. Sadly, the media will let it happen. GREENE is walking the path laid by the Tea Party in which
today's extremists become tomorrow's new GOP normal. This is a really good article,
and it points out a few different things. One of them is that there's no real daylight between the
two factions. In other words, the two factions we're talking about are the pro Kevin McCarthy,
pro-Trump people and the anti Kevin McCarthy pro-Trump people. Remember, as I told you
yesterday and the day before, you used to have pro and anti-Trump Republicans. The anti-Trump
Republicans are still there, but now the pro-Trump Republicans have divided into two. The ones that
wanted Kevin McCarthy to be speaker and the ones that did not. Amanda marcotte writes in
this article that there is a very good chance that corporate media is going to allow Marjorie Taylor
GREENE to rebrand herself in this way that she is trying to do. It's extraordinarily important
that we not be fooled by this redemption tour of sorts that Marjorie Taylor GREENE now is on her
perspective is now that Kevin McCarthy is speaker. I voted for the speaker. Republicans are in power.
I can either go the way of being kind of one of these agitators like Lauren Boebert, who she's
very much in a war with at this point in time. Or I can be cozy with power. I can get back on
committees. And that's very appealing to Marjorie Taylor GREENE. She is clearly desperate for power.
And part of this may even be starting to think about continuing to lobby to be Donald Trump's
vice presidential running mate. The other thing and this is not about, oh, everyone's a fascist.
That's not what I'm saying. But when we think about authoritarianism and fascist wannabes and
dictator wannabes, fascists will often do these rewriting of their own history, realignments,
these sort of redemption tours. If you allow them to do it, they will sort of mention some of my
past views were either mistakes or jokes, which I regret. Marjorie Taylor GREENE did that on Sunday,
where she said, I got sucked into some stuff on the Internet, like it happens to everybody.
And if you allow them, they will rewrite their own history. Marjorie Taylor GREENE is desperate
for power. She's desperate for credibility and recognition. After being a joke removed from
committees and essentially a laughingstock for two years. And she's probably angling
for some position of higher power. It could be within Congress. It could be as Donald Trump's
running mate. She wants to go from Jewish space lasers to I'm normal. I fell for some stuff, but
please forgive me. Now. I'm really a mainstream Republican, just like Mitt Romney or something
like that. Corporate media should not allow her to get away with that. And I have been careful when
we talk about George W Bush and I say, listen, if you put up a video of George W Bush and you
put up a video of Trump, obviously George W Bush seems normal compared to Trump. But let's not
allow his reputation to be rehabilitated. When he did horrible things as president and the media,
corporate media should not allow Marjorie Taylor GREENE to get away with what she is very obviously
trying to do. Like Amanda marcotte writes, I'm worried they will let her get away with it,
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